Dave Kehr

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For 1,651 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 59% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Dave Kehr's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Lowest review score: 0 Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 719 out of 1651
  2. Mixed: 703 out of 1651
  3. Negative: 229 out of 1651
1651 movie reviews
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    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Dave Kehr
    Strangers on a Train
    Perhaps Strangers on a Train still hasn't yielded all its secrets.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Dave Kehr
    Problem Child
    Dugan can`t find a tone that allows him to preserve the shock of the gags while minimalizing their physical painfulness.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Dave Kehr
    In the Mirror of Maya Deren
    Rather than a feminist martyr, her film presents an artist with a rich body of work, one who still fascinates and continues to cast a wide influence.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Dave Kehr
    Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII
    Ms. Slesin sums up the complicated feelings of Secret Lives with one well-chosen phrase: what these people are suffering from, she says, is the "trauma of gratitude." Her film is as complex and moving as that formulation.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 25 Dave Kehr
    Supergirl
    Queasily suspended between drag theatrics (Faye Dunaway and Brenda Vaccaro camping it up on a soundstage replica of a carnival spook house) and Spielbergian wholesomeness (Canadian Helen Slater as a toothy, Aryan Ubermadchen), this is one comic-book feature that doesn't fly.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Dave Kehr
    The Elephant Man
    Despite the rich associations, the film finally makes little more of its central figure, a hideously deformed young man, than an object of pity.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 25 Dave Kehr
    Toys
    One of the most mawkish films ever made.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 40 Dave Kehr
    The Caine Mutiny
    Despite a few flashes of talent in the 40s, Edward Dmytryk had descended to hack status by the time he filmed this 1954 version of Herman Wouk's novel, and his ham-fisted direction does little to alleviate the obviousness of the drama and the thinness of the characterizations.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 60 Dave Kehr
    Brown Sugar
    Sustains the charm of an early 60's New York romance.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 30 Dave Kehr
    Ted Bundy
    Disturbingly superficial in its approach to the material.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 40 Dave Kehr
    Beyond Vanilla
    It's hard not to chuckle, and hard, too, not to marvel at the many varieties of human experience.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Dave Kehr
    Km. 0 - Kilometer Zero
    Unfolds, skipping blithely from comic to melodramatic vignettes and back again, it follows the classical structure of a Shakespearean forest comedy, sorting out the mismatched couples and finding appropriate mates (or at least appropriate friendships) for everyone involved.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 100 Dave Kehr
    Meet Me in St. Louis
    Vincente Minnelli created one of his masterpieces with this loosely plotted but tightly structured 1944 story of a middle-class family waiting through spring, summer, and fall for the opening of the Saint Louis World's Fair of 1904.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Dave Kehr
    The Last Emperor
    A hesitant, conservative approach that yields great elegance and a rhythm that carries the viewer along. Yet the film is haunted by a sense of opportunities not taken, of an artist deliberately reining in his artistry. [9 Dec 1987, p.2]
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 45 Metascore
    • 50 Dave Kehr
    Bangkok Dangerous
    Some of the nonstop commotion of Bangkok Dangerous is funny and inventive -- but much more of it is simply irritating and obfuscating.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Dave Kehr
    Teachers
    Someone had another Hospital in mind, and they even hired Arthur Hiller to direct it, but the attempt to merge black humor and strident social commentary seems even more uncertain this time.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 25 Dave Kehr
    Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
    There hasn`t been a movie quite like Police Academy 4 since, well . . . "Police Academy 3." Make that exactly like, because here are the same characters, the same situations and the same jokes (most of them focused on damage suffered in the genital region) that have served the series since its inauspicious debut in 1984.
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